We have 22 participating authors with a possible prize at each so make sure you stop by and answer their question because that not only gets you in their drawing, it also gets you in the grand prize drawings where you have a chance at two fabulous prizes...

First prize is 15 ebooks...Second prize is 11 ebooks.

(prizes will be drawn on the 30th)

My main contribution to the grand prize is this...

Take Me Home, Cowboy

Ally Kincaid returns to Freewill, Wyoming, to see her father
after a two year absence. Anticipating a quiet family reunion, she finds
herself butting heads with her father’s foreman instead. The man’s arrogance
and sexy drawl push all her buttons, making her wonder what he’s hiding beneath
his cowboy swagger.

Matt Gentry walked away from the past and shies from the
future. No ties means no one gets hurt…until the boss’s daughter, a hot,
green-eyed blonde, tempts him to break his own rules.

When tragedy strikes, will building tension and pride
destroy their growing attraction or show them the way home?

It's no secret i seriously have a thing for cowboys :) What do you think makes them tick? I mean is it the country air, the stubborn bull-headed animals they have to deal with or the women that make them break all the rules?

Leave me a comment and don't forget your email address...let me know what you think about cowboys !! I'll be giving away 1 ebook copy of a Western Escape series title of your choice by Decadent Publishing.

Now, don't forget this list below...go and visit the other sites, read the blurbs and leave your comments for more chances to win!

In addition to Take Me Home, Cowboy in the grand prize, I am also including 4 anthologies in which I have stories....

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Before I became a starving author, I was an
adventurer. From diving with the great white shark to rafting down a twenty-one foot
waterfall, I've done it.

I can fly a plane, parachute from a plane, and hang-glide out of the way of a plane.

I have deepsea fished, fly fished and raised fish in the pond I built in my backyard.

I can kayak whitewater or seas, raft class four river, and scuba dive into the oceans, where once a giant stingray attacked me.

I have spent grueling hot days carefully unveiling diplodocus bones, riding a suicidal horse up a mountain to fly-fish, and almost enticing a dominant male buffalo of a very large herd to run me down. (I just had to get closer for a photo op.)

Some of these activities, I am actually good at. Others, I was lucky to survive. But all of them make great fodder for my characters to go out there and live life to their fullest.

What did you want to be when you were growing
up or did you always want to be a writer?

Actually, I first remember stating I wished to be a
lawyer, but my dad said he’d disown me if I did. So then I decided to be an
actress or a musician. All the while, I would write about characters who were
great musicians or actresses.

When did you first start writing?

Very early in life, and even then I had a sense of
humor. I would write short stories about my school experience and when given a
writing assignment in class, would write outside whatever parameters the
teacher gave me. Thus, I would write wonderfully funny stuff and only get a B
because I didn’t follow instructions.

What is a typical writing day like for
you?

Back when I simply wrote novels and put them up on www.BloodyGoodRead.com, my
day comprised of two main activities: Hiking with my dog and writing. That
means 3-5 hours of hiking each day, and the rest writing.

Now I’ve reduced the hiking to 3 hours a day and
spend the two saved hours networking, promoting and marketing. Some of my
writing time is now taken up with editing changes, writing scripts for promos,
and creating blogs. There are some days I don’t get to work on my novel in
progress at all. Those are sad days.

Do you have any specific routine you follow or
specific items you need with you when you write?

I
like to sit in my recliner with my laptop in my lap… in total silence.

What is your favorite part of writing?

Writing the rough draft of a new novel, when it’s
all emotions and my characters run amuck.

Is there anything you don’t like about being a
writer?

No I
love everything about writing, even the hard edits, although I bitch and moan
about them while they happen. When I’m done with the torture, I know my book is
better.

However, I often resent the amount of time
marketing and promotional efforts take from my writing. But it’s a necessity,
so I’m just going to have to learn to adapt.

What is your favorite length of book to
write?(Short story, novella, full
length novel) Why?

I don’t have a favorite length. It’s whatever
length my characters need to tell their story. Now often in edits, I’ll chop
out sections or add to a section that I gave short shift to. But the story
decides how long it needs to be.

How does your family feel about your writing
and you being an author?

I believe those who like me are very happy for me.
Hopefully, I’m annoying the others.

Is there a to-be-read waiting on your bedside
table?

No, but there is a ton of dust on the bedside table.
My books reside on a kindle which hangs out by the recliner and accompanies me
to doctors lobbies and other places that waste my time.

Just for fun, I have a few personal
questions,

Favorite 5

1)Favorite
Holiday— I ignore them all—otherwise people would expect me
not to write on these days.

2)Favorite
Drink – Green tea

3)Favorite
Author-of all time: Jane Austin, current: Rebecca Royce

4)Favorite
Book : Pride and Prejudice

5)Favorite
Animal: One particular Sheba Inu/Chow mix named Jessie.

And for a bonus:What is a typical mood for you?

I normally think I’m funny.

And is your mood different when you’re writing?

I am at peace and fulfilled when writing, although
outwardly I will feel whatever my characters feel, so I could be sobbing from heartbreak
or laughing hysterically.

Having been diagnosed with cancer, Cass Goldman
decides to opt out of any futile medical care and end her life.While she has some thoughts on afterlife, she
never expects to reincarnate into the body of a seventeen- year-old girl named
Casey Davidson.

When she awakens in a hospital, Cass discovers
two disturbing facts.One, she is now
inside the body of a troubled teenager, and two, the former owner of this body
committed suicide, but only Cass knows that. Everyone else believes Casey has
survived, but suffered a complete memory loss.Cass has two choices: to take on Casey’s life and turn it around, or to
confess the truth about her reincarnation and end up in a mental asylum.
Cass decides to take on the future life of Casey, a frightening ghoul-faced
teen with short, black, spiky hair.

Every person around Cass has an ulterior motive
and discovering the truth of Old Casey’s life is more complicated than the ‘new
math’ she is forced to learn in school.In addition, Cass has to contend with raging teenage hormones and the
prior crimes of Old Casey, which she might not remember, but everyone else
certainly does.However, her biggest
frustration concerns her feelings for her father’s rugged security specialist
who sees her only as a teenager and doesn’t want to explore the mutual
attraction between them

Short Excerpt

Upon settling down on the toilet, she noticed
the floor to ceiling mirror facing her and screamed at the sight of the
creature within in it. Short black hair spouted about its head, black circles
surrounded both eyes and fell like triangular knives down the cheeks. Black
lips, stretched in horror as if in a nightmare. Pulling up her pants, she moved
closer to the mirror.

She was a ghoul, an honest to God ghoul!

The door crashed open and her father stared at
her, fear and panic clear in his eyes.

Touching her face, she looked up at him. “Please
tell me these aren’t permanent.”

His panic remained a second longer as her words
filtered into his brain and then he pulled her into his arms. “Don’t worry; we
will get them removed—if you want to.”

“If? Oh, I definitely want them removed.”

How the hell could she turn around this life if
she looked like the walking dead from a low grade monster movie?

One last thing before we let you leave us today :)I like to cook and am always looking for new
recipes to try and share but it's totally up to you.

I stubbornly refuse to follow a recipe. I even
re-invented pudding once when trying to make a white sauce.

Oh Liza you are too funny! Thanks so much for visiting with us today :)

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Ashley NemerWelcome Ashley! We have a few Christmas questions to help us get to know you a little better.

Do you have any special tradition
that your family celebrates for the Christmas Holiday?

Yes, Christmas Eve is spent with my
family and we always go to Christmas Mass then come home for Christmas dinner
and opening presents. Then on Christmas day we are always with my Inlaws. It’s
nice equal time with each family.

Are you the
holiday cook or do you let someone else do the cooking?

I love hosting holidays
but usually someone else cooks because we are always at someone else’s house.

Do you like
to be where there is snow for the holidays or are you a snowbird that likes to
fly south for the winter?

I LOVE SNOW!!! But I live in Houston and all of my
immediate family lives in Houston or the south so we no longer have White
Christmas’s. I miss them.

As a reader,
do you like to read Christmas stories?

I do like to read Christmas stories,
either old time stories like The Night Before Christmas or Christmas love
stories written by current authors.

As a writer,
do you like to write Christmas stories?

Well this was my first Christmas story
to write and I actually did like writing it. It was nice not having to come up
with something overly dramatic but short sweet and loving.

Do you give
the gift of reading for Christmas ?

To the people who like to read, yes.

For fun, I
have a few personal questions,

Your
Favorite 5

1) Favorite Christmas
song – Silent Night

2) Favorite
Christmas movie- Nester the Long Eared Christmas Donkey

3) Favorite
Christmas story – Night Before Christmas

4) Favorite
Christmas color- Green

5) Favorite
Christmas food – Grandma’s Mashed Potatoes

And for a
bonus, if you were given the gift of travel to anywhere for the holidays, where
would you want to go???

If a dream
is a wish your heart makes, can it hear those things we want even if we don’t
know what they are? When sorrow brings young Lucy home to a land full of
mystery, steeped in tradition and colored with unspoken magic, she finds
herself reevaluating her life and her own place in it. Things are never what
they seem, and people are seldom what you THINK them to be if all you base it
on is what your eyes see and not what your soul speaks. There’s a fine line
between destiny and duty, but when both are blended with love, who knows what
miracles can occur at Christmas?

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Today we have author Meredith Smith with us to share a little about herself and her works :)Hi Meredith and welcome ! Can you tell us a little about yourself?

·Hi Kirsta! I am an Intuitive reader of dreams, dream
images, spirits, and different forms of energy…. And now author of DreamWorkers
Behind the Veil; Night Shift Dreams. I live in the Pacific Northwest and
despite the rain and cold it is very beautiful up here, I love the ocean and
mountains in this area.

Do
you find yourself going back to the same inspiration for each story or is it
always something different?

·I write about what happens in our dreamtime…
when our physical self lays down to rest our soul astral travels through
dimensional realms usually invisible to the waking naked eye.

When
do you write?Early morning? During the
day sometime or all day?After the kids
go to bed?

·Early morning, before the sun rises is my
favorite time to write, as I am most connected to returning from the
dimensional realms. I feel most creative in the early morning hours. It is peaceful
and my daughter and husband are both still sound asleep. I do write during the
day – it varies depending on my schedule.

How
do you feel about marketing your book?

·It’s hard work – it is exhausting! Ha ha! It is
much more time consuming than writing. It has been fun though, no complaints
here. I feel very grateful! I have met some amazing people through this process
and many doors are beginning to open for me. I stay up a little later so I can
do more of the marketing / research after dinner … and then I get to focus on my
writing and dreams in the morning.

What
social sites do you feel work best for marketing?

·I am not sure. I am still trying to get into
the swing of things with social media. I have found being a guest on various
internet radio shows has been the best way to connect with people.

Do
you like to pitch stories to your publisher or do you wait until you have
written the story and have a final manuscript to turn in?

·I wait until I have the story written and final
manuscript to turn in.

Is
there any other genre that you would love to try writing?If so, what is it?

·Fiction mystery and Fiction fantasy --- but of
course they both would center around our nighttime dreams, psychic abilities,
other realms.. etc…. After I finish this next manuscript I will spend some time
writing a fiction story that I carry around in my head right now.

Just
for fun, I have a few personal questions,

Favorite
5

1)Favorite Male Actor- the actor from the TV show Psych who plays
Shawn, not sure if he is my all-time favorite but he is the first that comes to
the front of my mind right now.

2)Favorite vehicle – any
type of Volvo

3)Favorite way to relax – Backpacking
in the Cascades or Olympic mountains

Is
there an upcoming or current release you would like to share with us today and
where can we find it?

Yes I recently wrote a book called DreamWorkers
behind the Veil;

Night Shift Dreams.

DreamWorkers: Behind the Veil; Night Shift Dreams takes the reader on a journey through the dream
realms far beyond the visible. As the reader journeys through these dreams,
they awaken to the world of the dreamer working the Night Shift. DreamWorkers is a collection of dreams
from people all over the world who traverse astral realms as they provide
guidance and healing to the departed. DreamWorkers
is meant to assist others in exploring the realm of their dreams, to bring the
invisible into the visible, and to shed light on those who are always in
service within their dreamtime.Through
this collection of dreams and research, the author works toward a lofty goal:
to reach out to those whose existence lies on the thin boundary between waking
and dreaming.

I appear, not
knowing how I arrived at this familiar place, but I understand why I am here.
As I stand waiting for what is to happen next, I am drawn to the window on the
second floor of the dark building across the street. As if I am waiting for a
signal, I am mesmerized by the glare on this window. I strain to see if there
is someone or something watching me from the window, but fail to recognize any
type of silhouette.

Many nights, I find
myself wandering down cobblestone streets of old European towns. The smaller
towns are rich in history and filled with a solitude and familiarity for my
soul. Sometimes I find myself engaging in conversation with several souls who
recognize me from an earlier era that I had long forgotten about. There is one
particular town, a place that feels like somewhere in Europe, where a
cobblestone street corner exists as a portal to the afterlife. I have never
travelled to this area in waking life, yet it is a destination my soul visits
frequently. It is customary for me to help people cross over at this exact
spot. Across the street from where I always stand is an old brick building with
a store front. I sense that there are apartments on the two upper floors. The
windows on the building feel hollow, empty, and dark, except for one on the
upper floor, in a far corner. This particular window seems to be watching me;
or rather, maybe it is someone who is watching me. I always glance up to
acknowledge the energy lurking around this window, letting it know I am aware
that they are there.

When I arrive at
this spot, it is never in daylight. There is always a pitch black night sky
with just one street lamp to the right of me that is lit up on the other side
of the street. I always arrive at the corner of the cobblestone street at the
exact moment I am needed—never early, never delayed. The instant I arrive, the
first of a long line of the dead appear. There is no time for me to waste, to
ask questions, or to hesitate; this is my task, my purpose. I promptly greet the
energies of each soul and take their translucent left hand and together,
swiftly, we cross the street to the other side. As we walk across the street,
the atmosphere shifts, the vibration rises, and a stripping of the old takes
place; what once was is now being cleansed.

Within the first
seconds that we arrive on the other side of the cobblestone street, the soul
always turns to me and says telepathically, “Thank You.” Instantly, the energy
field around us fills with love and compassion—simple loving emotions most of
the time forgotten in the physical form. I nod my head in gratitude. They move
forward, drifting, transcending into what I am only capable of seeing as an
unlit dark cobblestone alley.

To each of these
souls, what they see, experience, and feel is something that is not contained
within human words to describe; there is no translation, only radiant light. I
watch as the shift of their frequency vibrates higher, and I sense these are
images that are created to align with their spiritual beliefs. I sense the
luminous light beckons them to dive in, to wash away what was in hopes of what
is, and to create what will be.

Sometimes, I
encounter a soul who will plead for me not to let go of their hand, or will
request my companionship to walk with them further down the alley. With a
gentle gesture of touch, I gracefully inform them that I am not allowed to
cross the boundary line into the alley; I remind them that I must remain on
this side.

About the Author:

Thanks to over 35
years of personal experience and exploration in the dreaming realm, Meredith
Smith naturally receives messages from the dream realms to help guide others
through their own personal healing process and translations of dreams. She has
studied and trained in dream Interpretation, archetypes & symbolism, past
life regression & hypnosis, Shamanic energy work, and Usui Reiki.

Meredith Smith is
an intuitive reader of dreams, images, spirits, and energy--- with her
specialized training entwined with her own natural gifts -- she believes that
dreams are pieces to one’s own personal soul’s journey (past, present, &
future). Meredith Smith guides each dreamer through the process of putting
together the symbolic pieces of their amazing magical travels through the
astral realms. She is a dream translator, a dream intuitive, an astral traveler,
a spirit rescuer, an empath, and an energy healer; Meredith speaks in dreams.

One last thing before we let you leave us :) Do you have a favorite recipe you'd
like to share?I like to cook and am
always looking for new recipes to try and share.

I actually get a lot of my recipes from the
wordpress blog Five and Spice. We eat vegetarian in our house, so I follow the
recipes and replace the meats with other options.

Very nice! I added a link for Five and Spice so everyone can check them out too. Thanks so much for that tip and for being with us today to learn more about you and your writing. Can't wait to read Dreamworkers Behind the Veil!